home sweet quilt!

Quilts are hard to photograph!!! seriously...these photos were the best of a bad bunch but hopefully you get the general idea!

I made this quilt a number of years ago when i was a student. Since I was (inevitably) poor, the squares are cut from a curtain material samples book that a friend of my mum gave me. They actually make great quilts because usually the patterns or colours match in some way and.....and well, they're free, what can i say?

I LOVE customisation and the time of making this quilt I was trying to buy a house. It was a deeply frustrating process as I was convinced that I had found my dream house, in my dream area, and I really believed that God had confirmed to me that I would live there...a few days before the handover of the keys it all fell through...

I was disappointed but to be honest I felt more perplexed, because I was convinced that God had told me that I would live there...in fact he continued to confirm it to me even after this, with different verses from the Bible, which I decide to put my faith in and keep believing!!! You'll see those verses embroidered around the edge of the motif...(you see where this is going dont you?!)...well anyway, I just carried on making the quilt and believing that it would come to pass at the right time....it did of course.

The house next door to the original one went on sale a year after and I bought it the same day. It's a perfect mirror image of the first house so all the furniture that i had ordered fitted perfectly, just the other way round!! lol

So here is a close-up of the house-of-spoon (i think it's actually nicer than the first house, but then...i'm biased!!).

The verses that I had been believing in over the year of waiting are embroidered around the house motif...
...and also down the edges, (I ran out of curtain material squares!!)

I think it is a good idea to reflect hard times and good times in the things you make, because they really begin to mean something to you and help you remember what you've learned....in my case...HAVE FAITH and HAVE PATIENCE (groan...im still working on this one!)

I've kept it in the hotpress for ages and I just got it out at the weekend as we have one of our italian nephews staying with us...it was nice to remember...maybe I'll use it more often.